iFixit Teardown Reveals iPad Pro's Four-Speaker Design Fills Space That Could Have Held 50% More Battery

[dilbert99]

Up above you confidently claimed, "There are many ways to reduce the weight of an object..." when I replied to your wanting the iPad Pro to be the weight of an iPad Mini.

Was asking how you would go about doing that. Even with my engineering background I don't think there's any way to make the iPad Pro the same weight as an iPad Mini without severely compromising battery life, performance, features and build - with the technology that's available today or in the near future.

Thus my original question: How would YOU do that?

Any you were obviously being facetious and also misquoted me. I said "Personally, I'd rather have an iPad pro that weighed the same as an iPad mini or at least an iPad air"

Apple has taken the original iPad and made it almost the same weight and volume as an iPad mini.
They have also made an iPad Pro that has less volume and almost the same weight as the original iPad

So I don't think it is a stretch to want things to be lighter. Apple obviously has better skilled engineers to tackle this problem and at each incarnation still gets the same battery life.

Personally, I would reduce the thickness, use thinner glass, use better battery tech, use better screen tech, use new materials, reduce the bezel size. These are all things that Apple currently does.

Come back and view this thread in a 4 years and you will see that I got my wish.

 

[winston1236]

9 pages discussing this story - seems fairly relevant to me.

Yep. Lots of pages. My question was how are they relevant in an era where you can't 'fix' nearly any electronic device. They keep announcing that "nope, this model is even less repairable than the last", they serve no purpose in this decade.

 

[touchstoned]

If it gets 10 hours or more as advertised then I am glad they aren't making the already very heavy 13" ipad heavier. So you would rather have an ipad that is heavier, has worse speakers (something that will be important if you use it for media consumption) but maybe gets 15 hours battery life? When are you going to use your ipad for more than 10-11 hours straight? Even if you do, why can't you use 11 hours and then plug it in? You MUST have 16 hours or more?


This is another complaint from the "Make it huge but have 8 day battery life" crowd. Yes, we realize you have no taste in aesthetics and use your computers for 18 hours a day, but most people aren't that weird. Deal with it.

 

[rodpascoe]

Some of the people all of the time, all of the people none of the time.......

Difficult to make everyone happy.

 

[lkar]

Given what I have seen so far I would wait for the iPad Pro 2.

 

[lordofthereef]

I had the chance to play around with one of these at Best Buy the other day and, I have to say, the sound is a huge improvement over previous iPads. I am uncertain just how much weight was saved (people keep mentioning the extra battery would have made it too heavy). It's certainly not as light as other offerings, but I feel like the first iPad was much heavier. I felt it was more cumbersome than anotheting, just because of its sheer size. And I couldnt really comfortably hold it without at least patially covering two speakers (in ladnscape since I was testing video playback).

 

[lordofthereef]

Yep. Lots of pages. My question was how are they relevant in an era where you can't 'fix' nearly any electronic device. They keep announcing that "nope, this model is even less repairable than the last", they serve no purpose in this decade.

There are people out there that like to tackle their own repairs. And I would say it's a safe bet that some repair shops use ifixit as a tool to see how best to take something apart. Lastly, people seem to be fasinated with teardowns (as is evidence of this thread). I seem to remember a youtoube phenomenon where some guy in a labcoat used a blender and threw all kinds of things, even iphones, into it. Simply put, it's entertainent.